This 1952 comedy classic is, for my money, the best film musical ever made – in part because it provides a clever satiric account of a pivotal point in the history of cinema, the transition from silent movies to sound. Gene Kelly stars as a silent film star poised to make the transition, with Donald O’Connor as his vaudeville pal and teenaged Debbie Reynolds as a chorus girl on the rise. But how about Jean Hagen as Lina Lamont, the silent screen star with a voice made for silent movies? And Cyd Charisse (pictured with Kelly), stealing one part of this movie with those show-stopping legs, in a role billed only as “Dancer”? You’d think, given her routine and talent, she’d have been given another reindeer name. Prancer, maybe. Or, even better, Vixen.